- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:47:57 -0500
- To: Bill Andersen <andersen@ontologyworks.com>
- CC: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>, SUO <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>, Ontoweb <seweb-list@cs.vu.nl>, W3C Web Ontology WG <www-webont-wg@w3.org>, RDF <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, protege-discussion <protege-discussion@smi.stanford.edu>, cg@cs.uah.edu
Bill-- Why not interpret "higher in the diagram than" as meaning "guides the use of" rather than as "less basic than" or "following after"? It seems to me you're sewing a vest onto an awfully small button. Earlier in this thread, you said > This community had better stop playing academic one-upmanship and get busy > producing something... Is further in-depth analysis of TBL's layer-cake diagram SUO's kick-off to this program? --Frank Bill Andersen wrote: > > On 4/1/02 13:33, "Frank van Harmelen" <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl> wrote: > > > I would be happy if this clarification removes "your major complaint about > > much of the work on the semantic web". > > Frank, > > This is a fine diagram, but notice that "Logic" is a little block on top of > RDF-schema, for example. This tells me that things like RDF-schema are seen > as prior to logic by at least Berners-Lee and perhaps others. > > John's point was precisely the opposite. He would not disagree with you > about the choice of establishing the lexicon first, which has been done by > virtue of the fact that Unicode and URIs are at the bottom. However, I > think he would vehemently disagree, as do I, that "Logic" is somehow less > basic that "RDF-schema" or "XML-schema". > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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